You cannot access reddit without either an account, or turning off your VPN. Effectively meaning that it’s difficult to access reddit privately, as they can either track you with IP or with account.
Even alternative frontends like RDX for reddit by @overdevs@lemmy.world don’t solve this issue.
I can’t believe more people haven’t left because of that.
Been getting that for months.
Work uses a VPN. So if there’s a useful answer to a work question on some technical reddit, I don’t see it. Way to remain a relevant resource for anything but fandom BS.
Do they have an android app?
no, but the mobile version of the website is just fine. you can also install LibRedirect (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/libredirect/) on Firefox to automatically redirect reddit links to it.
They are slowly killing public access.
They don’t want you using reddit unless you are using with an account tied to real ID.
They want to pump up the number of new accounts and/or monthly active accounts by any means necessary now that the stock price depends on it.
I have a feeling they want to be like Facebook, with the aggressive personal info you have to give in order to login, they can lock the content behind the login feature like fb does
isnt thier Q4 earning, they are reporting, hence the massive bans as of late, gotta look up suck up to investors, who wants to purchase reddit. reddit is on its way to become a FB CLONE. anyone remember Y!Answers(i still think it was the og reddit before people moved there. Y’A was most useful for physics /math, and some science questions from textbooks if you need answers.
you know the drill folks: deny the parasite engagement, seed fedi with discussion.
corpo parasite took the shit poster for granted for too long.
I gotta admit I just discovered Reddit few weeks ago that I spend a bit more time there. Before it was only from Google results when needed.
I don’t know how it was before, but it feels pretty decent now. I don’t have a comparison.
Will be hard to leave Reddit now haha 🙄
it was way better before, especially they dint force the New UI, you can still use the OLD.reddit feature, which makes it easier to navigate the site. the infinite scroll feature that most social media has now, is not good at all, its also gets very buggy and laggy(if your using it on mobile browser). Also there have been significant ban/purges in the last few months and many accounts were banned. alot of innocent users have been caught in the crossfire, additionally, in my opinion its pretty hostile to new users too, because subreddits have UPPed thier anti-ban evasion ,spam filter, even to the point it harms new users.
remember this comment when you figure out why reddit is fucked haha
prolly under 3 months if you are going to engage on there.
if they can even post/comment as a new user
I’m hearing new users are having a hard time doing that, even if they are not vpn, ban evading or shielding their online metrics from reddit. The spam filter is so aggressive that you can be banned very easily
Actually it turns out my account is 3 years old lol but I started to read it properly few weeks back.
I’m curious to understand it more.
In the meantime I’m exploring Fediverse too 😁
Think about this:
Literally all the value of Reddit comes from the users, and most of the moderation comes from volunteers.
That is, everything that made Reddit useful was provided for free.
Now those jackanapes think they’re entitled to create money based on the free labor of millions of people. And what makes that more infuriating is they had the gall to call those volunteers “landed gentry”.
I mean, that is an obvious bullshit, but I thought there’s something else going on there that makes it shit place nowadays.
I mean - capitalism… of course it’s looking to exploit… they couldn’t be content with the ad revenue…
I just host a RedLib instance and browse every so often. Starting to use Lemmy more for actual interactions.
(me using a VPN and this frontend https://rdx.overdevs.com/subreddit.html?r=popular)
What’s this about a block now?
Which VPN are you using? In most cases it works for me depending on the country I choose.
Got to keep rotating them servers, it is an endless wack a mole game.
Happens on corporate VPN too. Morons are blocking themselves. Imagine a corpo user looking for Excel formulas for work and reddit it’s like, ‘fuck outta here’.
Admittedly, I only use exit nodes in my state, but they do block Mullvad and Air.
Have you tried just using Lemmy instead?
What do you think I’m doing? My account doesn’t have thousands of lemmy submissions by accident!
Yup, donated $100 too because it’s a great service.
I can say got suspended for using VPN, they say there’s an issue with the security of my account & promoted me to change the password. I never posted any comments only did upvote & downvote. Still got suspended for no reason!!
interesting, through the ban wave last tuesday only one of my accts wasnt pera ban, but it required me to change my password out of the blue, and it also receive the "perma ban message, but i couldnt find it anywhere( the appeals page doesnt let you contact them if you have no ban in place). im almost certain my account was flagged, additionally i checked today searching my acc incognito, it has a restricted box next to the name? havnt tried to comment with it yet.
You are shadowbanned site wide my friend. Just like me. No appeal will help you.
havnt tested it by commenting yet. im not surprised if it is.
they have a tor hidden service, still seems to work.
every account I made on there got shadowbanned. I made them before they had email as a requirement
I created a Reddit account a few days ago (for testing purposes) using MullvadVPN and after many captachas I managed to finalize but the account is shadowbanned. I can access the subreddits but my comments don’t show up for anyone
By the way, fuck Reddit!!!
they automatically shadowban vpn users, i was on another forum that they already had been banning vpn accounts(instant ban) for a while they all switched to using proxies, anti-detection browsers, ISP changes to evade the bans. anyone who have been using it recently will get shadowbanned instantly or eventually, hence the use of different proxies instead. even that is not fool-proof , and people are actually paying to do this(for thier OF accounts)
a way to check if your acc is shadowbanned is logout and incognito and try to look up your user profile(or any other redditors profile, if says missing or suspended, you know), it also can tell if a user has deactivated thier acc.
additionally reddit is currently going through a large purge of accounts as of recently, someone mentioned in another forum that there have been an unusual amount of account bans recently(like 3 in the last 3 months). i lost a couple of accs as a normal users, one of my acc got temp suspeneded, suddenly all my other accounts were immediately permabanned.(apparently some mods are extremely anal about reporting other people). theres other instances of other peoples acc were banned for no reason at all, appealing just gets a rejection notice(reddit admins arnt even bothering to look at it, they know)
I think they’re either using google data to link email accounts to phone numbers or using an NLP model to identify users by how they write in the vans.
I hot banned on accounts tied to email addresses I haven’t used in years, logged in from a vpn. Like. 5 email addresses. Many accounts on the email addresses hadn’t been used in years. The only things linking them were a phone number I used for 2fa on google.
It’s the Reddit app. It flags all accounts used to log in on them device.
I now only use the (broken) mobile page
Yes apparent the app gives them even more info, like you device id , components, Mac address, and it has a anti-vpn measure built in, unlike the browsers
I got like five accounts banned before I figured it out
Don’t use it. Never have.
they do the same with you IP too, and additionally if they catch any of your accts, mimicking your other accts, they can put 2 and 2 together.
You know you can use an extension that will redirect you to old.reddit.com which doesn’t need an account? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
No, that doesn’t always work. They still block that sometimes.
Removed by mod
Oh, I just reconnect to different Mullvad servers until it connects to one that isn’t flagged by Reddit, on the rare occasion I need info from a Reddit post.
Unfortunately for Reddit, I am more stubborn than they are, and will quite happily spend 5 minutes doing that instead of registering an account/going without a VPN. And if they “fix” that, I’m quite certain I could find a workaround.
They seem to not only use IP based techniques - they block me if I use wireguard to my dedicated server (who’s public IP range has been mine for longer than wireguard exists and almost as long as Reddit exists) while I can access it directly from that IP without issues. And if I dial back into my home network it’s basically 50/50 if it works or not.
they have vcaptcha v3, which im told it silently records you in the background and check for botting behavior, plus if you login with the same vpn+ip that has compromised reddit accounts. theres anti-detection browsers, mobile proxies, and additional need to let your account simmer after creating.
I have no account logged in and use FF private mode,but yeah. It’s annoying.
Without the services I mentioned it’s pretty hard to get around, and people use of on reddit uses those methods, and they pay, and it’s not 100%. I used to create new accounts at a university library computer, so they almost never catch on if one receives a subreddit ban. Their AI looks for posting pattern writing style as well, so they are looking at everything you do, not just IP.
It’s been that way for years.
i use it with proton vpn every day because my country’s incompetent slop government blocks access to it otherwise
I use it with NordVPN all the time
